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SharePoint Governance Resources

Scott — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:21:45 +0000

Governance is something that should be at the top of the list for any SharePoint implementation (no matter how small). The following are some checklists/whitepapers/etc. provided by Microsoft that can get you started.

This is of course only sampling of what’s available. Feel free to sound off in the comments with your go-to resources for SharePoint governance.

Event ID error messages 10016 and 10017 are logged in the System log after you install Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Scott — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:35:27 +0000

More fun SharePoint errors in the system log. If you’re seeing 10016/17 errors in the Event Log and want to resolve them, perform the steps outlined in KB920783.

Note that these errors are more of a nuisance than anything. The existence of these errors is expected and will not impact the functionality of your farm. That being said, less errors being generated is a “good thing” in my mind.

SharePoint in Plain English

Scott — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:29:41 +0000

This one is a little old, but still relevant. If you’ve ever struggled with trying to convey what SharePoint is to your users, refer them to this video.

Users Not Found in People Pickers

Scott — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:31:00 +0000

Ah yes, the people picker again. I recently inherited an environment where the previous administrator was kind enough to not document anything, especially the items he/she had been playing with in development.

When trying to designate a user as a Primary Site Collection Administrator in Central Administration, I was unable to query for subsets of domain users on a single web application. After checking all of the usual suspects (Peoplepicker-searchadforests I’m looking at you) with no success, it was off to the not-so-usual suspects.

It turns out the previous admin was kind enough to set the Peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter property on the main portal site collection. After setting the property to null

stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadcustomfilter -pv "" -url [URL]

all was once again right with the world.

Now where did I leave my sledgehammer?

MS10-070 Released Out-of-Band Today

Scott — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:10:13 +0000

The title says it all. Get patching. Hit up the security bulletin for downloads.

Reference

Oracle Padding, ASP.NET Vulnerabilities, and SharePoint

Scott — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:51:26 +0000

The Microsoft SharePoint team has released specific guidance for a workaround for the recently announced ASP.NET vulnerability (Security Advisory 2416728). With a slight modification, this guidance will also apply to SharePoint 2007.

For SharePoint 2010, the relevant web.config entry will look like:

While for SharePoint 2007, the web.config entry will read:

You are prompted to enter your credentials when you access an FQDN site from a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows 7 and has no proxy configured

Scott — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 15:04:22 +0000

Well, the title says it all doesn't it? Windows Vista/7 (but mostly 7 as no one ever really used Vista) have a problem when accessing WebDav shares on sites with a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). This becomes very apparent with MS Office and attempting to access documents stored in SharePoint document libraries.

Most people would skip over the remainder of the article after reading that this issue was resolved after the release of Vista SP1. Reading on, one would learn that even with the hotfix, a registry entry must be created which will allow client side programs such as Office pass their credentials through to the server.

The following registry entry must be created:

Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\WebClient\Parameters
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click Multi-String Value.
Type AuthForwardServerList, and then press ENTER.
On the Edit menu, click Modify.
In the Value data box, type the URL of the server that hosts the Web share, and then click OK. Note You can also type a list of URLs in the Value data box.
Exit Registry Editor.
Restart the WebClient service or reboot the PC.

Reference

KB 943280

A Manager’s Guide to SharePoint

Scott — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:42:11 +0000

The Acuff Group recently posted a whitepaper titled A Manager’s Guide to SharePoint [PDF] which makes for an interesting afternoon read.

SharePoint Solution Downloader

Scott — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:22:24 +0000

One of my pain points as a SharePoint “administrator” is having to deal with deployments of solution packages to my environment without the best change management. This means that I often see packages making their way in to the environment without any thought given to keeping the package in case it needs to be reapplied at a later time (Note: I’m not the only one who controls what goes into the environment).

The solution? I whipped up a Windows application so download one, several, or all of the solution packages currently stored in the farm configuration database.

I have posted the application to CodePlex @ http://spsolutiondownloader.codeplex.com/.

The application must be run in the context of a Farm Administrator (i.e. right-click, Run As…) on a server in the farm for which you wish to download the solution package(s) from and requires the .NET Framework 3.5.

I would love some feedback from the community as to whether or not this useful. I have some other little apps in mind I could put together with the proper motivation.

SharePoint Designer – The Cat Is Out of the Bag

Scott — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:20:17 +0000

Today marks the official release of SharePoint Designer as a free product offering from Microsoft. While overall, this announcement can certainly be considered a good thing by the SharePoint community (who doesn’t like free stuff?), as a SharePoint “administrator” it makes me cringe. It is a good thing all of us have “locked down” SharePoint Designer in our respective environments.

You did remember to lock down, didn’t you?

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